COPYRIGHT, 1897
BY JOHN L. STODDARD
ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
John L. Stoddard was born in Brookline, Mass., April 24, 1850. He
graduated at Williams College, as valedictorian of his class, in 1871,
and then studied theology for two years at Yale Divinity School. Next
he taught Latin and French in the Boston Latin School. In 1874 he was
able to gratify a long cherished desire to travel in foreign lands,
and not only made the customary tour of Europe, but visited Greece,
Asia Minor, Palestine and Egypt as well. He then studied in Germany,
and upon his return to America, began his career as a lecturer, which
for about twenty years has known no interruptions save those due to his
repeated visits to remote countries. His travels embrace nearly all the
habitable parts of the globe.